Exam Name MULTIPLE CHOICE Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question 1 Awareness of the linking overseas production with U S consumption has led some to be 1 concerned with the working conditions in the Asian factories in which their clothing is made A division of labor B comparative advantage C producer services D transnational corporations E commodity chains 2 The new international division of labor is characterized by A increase of the United States as an industrial producer B new high tech manufacturing and producer service specializations in the periphery C decentralization of manufacturing from the core D all of the above E both A and B 2 3 The modern world system had its origins in late fifteenth century Europe and was especially associated with a rise in A exploration B consumer demand for imported products C food production D manufacturing E art 3 4 Railroads originated in this country A Germany B Britain C France D Canada E United States 4 5 Nineteenth century railroad development in the United States A was paltry compared to that of France B made the California Gold Rush possible C was slowed by the Napoleonic wars in Europe D helped consolidate the Manufacturing Belt 5 1 6 Neo colonialism A has been supplanted by globalization B is generally not considered exploitative C is not connected with transnational corporations D allows core states still to have significant influence over periphery states E all of the above 6 7 The concept of import substitution is best characterized as A changing suppliers of imported goods B purchasing imported goods to replace locally produced goods C manufacturing goods that had previously been imported D exporting and importing the same type of product 7 8 The first agricultural revolution was characterized by all of the following except A uprising of rural populations against urban landholders B sedentary agriculture based on burning plant matter as a way of returning nutrients to the soil C new methods to process prepare and store foods D occurred in Fertile Crescent South Asia East Asia Mesoamerica and the Andes E domestication of animals such as sheep and cattle 8 2 World Map 9 Countries 26 27 and 28 are all part of A Southeast Asia B Sub Saharan Africa C North America D the Middle East E North Africa 9 10 The core periphery framework for explaining the world system is based on geographic divisions that have emerged as a result of A competition between countries B competition between political perspectives C private economic competition D competition between religious groups E both A and B 3 10 World Map 11 The European country nearest to Morocco is A Portugal B France C Canada 11 D Spain E Ghana 12 Which of the following regions was the last to be discovered by Europeans A West Africa B North America C South America D Japan E Australia and New Zealand 12 13 After WWII the world system periphery was referred to as the A Last World B First World C Second World D Third World 13 14 Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the early world empires A colonialization B distribution of wealth from the upper classes to the lower classes C agriculturally based economy D use of religion and or the military to control subjects 14 15 With the emergence of the world system European reshaped the world A comparative advantages B transnational corporations C languages D sports E merchant capitalism 15 4 16 By the fifteenth century centers of capitalism in the developing world system included all but A London B southeast China C Cairo D Stockholm E New York 16 17 The first to appreciate the practical importance and usefulness of geography were the A Germans B Greeks 17 18 In the years after World War II this country emerged as the hegemonic power A Britain B Japan C Soviet Union D United States E China 18 19 Which of the following centers of early global civilization was not linked by the Silk Road A China B northern India C Eastern Mediterranean D Central Andes and MesoAmerica E All of the above were linked by the Silk Road 19 20 Plantations established to exploit labor and resources in the periphery are geared toward A industrial crops like cotton flax and sunflowers B high value luxury items like sugar and cocoa C mixed fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and apples D staple crops like corn and potatoes E any and all of the above 20 5 World Map 21 The capital city of country 58 is A Dacca B New Delhi C Tokyo D Accra E Dakar 21 22 The first agricultural revolution and the subsequent transition to food producing minisystems resulted in all of the following except A barter and trade between communities B higher population densities C more settlements D non agricultural specializations E industrialization 22 23 World empires are organized around a A subsistence production economy B reciprocal social economy C redistributive tributary social economy D capitalist social economy E all of the above 23 6 24 The phrase Jihad vs McWorld is intended to symbolize the struggle and tensions between A the local and the global B religious fundamentalists and secular capitalists C nutritious traditional food and unhealthy processed food D traditionally based cultural values and pop culture shallow materialism E the North and the South 24 25 European industrialization began in the century A seventeenth B fifteenth C fourteenth D eighteenth E sixteenth 25 26 Internet access is A increasing at slower and slower rates B most frequent in upper income households in core countries C about the same for most regions of the world D limited to fewer than 150 million people 26 27 The influential nineteenth century geographers von Humboldt and Ritter saw geography as an integrative science showing the interdependencies between A places B people and nature 27 28 Which of the following was NOT a hearth area A Ganges floodplain B Fertile Crescent C Arizona and New Mexico D Anatolian plateau E Scandinavia 28 29 In a sense globalization has been around for a long time For example trade routes have connected the Europeans with for over a thousand years A China B the Americas 29 30 The first agricultural revolution set the preconditions for early world empires by A highlighting the benefits of import substitution and comparative advantage B introducing colonialism and imperialism C eliminating the need for hunting and gathering D enabling an increase in population densities trade between minisystems E all of the above 30 7 31 In a